BioNotes

March 4 through March 8, 2019

Wednesday, March 6 – Wednesday, March 6, 12:00 pm – 12:00 pm, 1200 COM—BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES SEMINAR, "Interferon-inducible GTPases in innate immunity and autophagy," Dr. Qian Yin, Institute of Molecular Biophysics and Department of Biological Science, Florida State University.

Wednesday, March 6 – Wednesday, March 6, 3:30 pm – 3:30 pm, A211 PDB—NEUROSCIENCE COLLOQUIUM , "Risky choices: neural mechanisms and interactions with substance use," Dr. Barry Setlow, Department of Psychiatry, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL. Host: Dr. Jian Feng. A graduate student lunch and discussion with the speaker will be held Thursday, March 4, 12:30pm-1:30pm, A204 PDB. Undergrads and Postdocs are also welcome to attend.

Wednesday, March 6 – Wednesday, March 6, 3:30 pm – 3:30 pm, the Great Hall, 4th Floor, The Honors, Scholars, and Fellows House—PIE WORKSHOP, "TA panel Q and A session." Presented by Vivianne Asturizaga, Musicology and J.T. Bandzuh, Geography. Host: Program for Instructional Excellence, FSU.

Thursday, March 7 – Thursday, March 7, 11:00 am – 11:00 am, 2057 KIN—PLANT SCIENCES SEMINAR, "The dominant and poorly penetrant phenotypes of maize unstable factor for orange1 are caused by DNA methylation changes at a Linked transposon," Dr. Karen M. McGinnis, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University. Discussion of Whitmeyer at al., The Plant Cell, 2018. 30(12): p. 3006-3023.

Thursday, March 7 – Thursday, March 7, 3:30 pm – 3:30 pm, 1024 KIN—FACULTY MEETING

Thursday, March 7 – Thursday, March 7, 7:00 pm – 7:00 pm, 1024 KIN—FLORIDA NATIVE PLANT SOCIETY MEETING, "How fine scale fire behavior maintains biodiversity in southern pine ecosystems," Kevin Hiers, Wildland Fire Scientist, Tall timbers Research Station and Land Conservancy, Tallahassee, FL. Host: Magnolia Chapter, Florida Native Plant Society. Socializing begins at 7:00, chapter meeting at 7:30, and presentation at 7:45. Free and open to the public.

Friday, March 8 – Friday, March 8, 3:30 pm – 3:30 pm, 101 CAR—EOAS COLLOQUIUM, "Atmospheric methylmercury: from the ocean to fog to bioaccumulation in coastal terrestrial apex predators in California," Dr. Peter Weiss, Department of chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA.

Friday, March 8 – Friday, March 8, 4:00 pm – 4:00 pm, 1024 KIN—ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION SEMINAR, "3D forests: rethinking the way we look at fuels and forests," Dr. Eric Rowell, Tall Timbers Research Station and Land Conservancy, Tallahassee, FL. Host: Dr. Daniel Okamoto, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University.

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